Senior Cloud Architect – AWS, Terraform & Hybrid Infra

Fusion Innovation; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Fusion Innovation in Chantilly, VA, seeks a Senior Cloud Architect to lead AWS-based design and deployment across multi-account, multi-environment setups, including on-premises VMware.

You will drive IaC with Terraform, establish secure-by-default architectures, implement landing zones, and collaborate with security, networking, and application teams to enable reliable, scalable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience designing reference architectures across AWS and hybrid on-prem environments.
• Ability to define scalable deployment patterns for multi-account and multi-environment setups.
• Knowledge of AWS landing zones, guardrails, logging, tagging, governance, and cost controls.
• Hands-on experience building Terraform modules for production AWS environments.
• Familiarity with VPCs, IAM roles/policies, load balancing, and related AWS services.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement reference architectures for AWS and hybrid environments.
• Define scalable deployment patterns for multi-account, multi-region architectures.
• Establish standardized AWS landing-zone practices including security guardrails and logging.
• Build and maintain Terraform modules for production AWS environments.
• Develop infrastructure patterns for VPCs, IAM, logging, and compute resources.
• Architect and support VMware/vSphere-based on-premises compute fleets.

Skills

AWS architecture

Hybrid cloud

Security by design

IAM & security

CI/CD

Git workflows

Tools

Terraform

VMware/vSphere

Git

Job description

Fusion Innovation in Chantilly, VA, seeks a Senior Cloud Architect to lead AWS-based design and deployment across multi-account, multi-environment setups, including on-premises VMware.

You will drive IaC with Terraform, establish secure-by-default architectures, implement landing zones, and collaborate with security, networking, and application teams to enable reliable, scalable infrastructure.